The on-again, off-again saga of Palm Beach Cruise Line’s MV PALM BEACH PRINCESS (ex ILMATAR, VIKING PRINCESS) seems to have come to an end. The ship, plagued by mechanical issues and recent bankruptcy proceedings, departed Palm Beach, FL for possible lay up at Freeport and a very uncertain future. The…
Milan’s Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology houses the entire five deck forward portion of the 1925-built CONTE BIANCAMANO's superstructure has been enshrined here since its careful removal, transport to Milan and painstaking rebuilding some forty six years ago. CONTE BIANCAMANO Decked! by Peter Knego…
April 4: Oceania Cruises’ MV MARINA left her building dock for her fitting out berth at Fincantieri’s Sestri Ponente Shipyard in Italy. The 65,000 gt ship will be finished late this year for an early 2011 debut. See MaritimeMatters’ MV MARINA Float Out video clips, parts one through three and…
Built at Penhoet, St. Nazaire as FRANCE Yard #G19 66,348 GRT 1,035 x 110.5 feet Quadruple Screw, geared CEM-Parsons geared turbines from builders 31, max 35.21 knots 160,000 shaft horsepower 407 First Class, 1,637 Tourist Class passengers When the SS FRANCE was launched by Madame Charles De Gaulle on May…
Last looks from her builders Fincantieri at Monfalcone, Italy as the new P&O AZURA, (sister to VENTURA) drops her pilot and heads for her new home port of Southampton, UK. AZURA will arrive at Southampton’s Ocean Cruise Terminal on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 07:00 hrs and she will leave…
MISSION SANTA YNEZ in San Francisco Drydock April 3, 2010. Photo courtesy Anh Nguyen and Marco Souza Updated from March 30, the MISSION SANTA YNEZ, a 1943- built T-2 tanker that has been in the Suisuin Bay Reserve Fleet since 1975, is now in a San Francisco dry dock being…
April 2: Almost every plot here (at Alang, India) is occupied, some with two ships. REGAL EMPRESS (ex OLYMPIA, CARIBE I) is completely gone. Her berth is now occupied by another ship that is three weeks into the demolition process. In the neighboring plot, DALMACIJA is missing her bow and…
